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#52606 added a KDA prefill fusion path for ROCm's gfx950, but was reverted in #53294 as its builds failed on gfx90a. This PR adds back the fused path, and guards the kernel builds on gfx950. This PR also adds a few optimizations to further improve the prefill performance, achieving ~5% TTFT reduction compared to the original triton path of the KDA prefill chain.

The bulk of the design follows #52606 in fusing KDA prefill ops into two groups: "prologue" that handles the (pre-)processing leading up to the recurrent update, and "recurrence" that adopts a two-pass strategy, walking the state update in each group of chunks first from uninitialized states and then from the correct initial states, with a scan in between to work out the true initial states of each groups.

This PR additionally incorporates the following on top of the original kernels:

  • The recurrence stage reads from and writes to the recurrent state paged cache directly. While the old path using dense initial_state/final_state still functions, state_cache and state_indices can be optionally piped into the kernel and is set as default for the fused path. This fuses the gather/scatter into this kernel, eliminating the need for gather_initial_state and the final scatter in the fused path.
  • The recurrent state update is further split into two, along the state's K dimension and the chunk's tokens. Two waves now handles their separate halves of each block, and communicate their intermediates through LDS for their reduction. This improves occupancy of CUs.
  • Checkpoint state, indices, and offsets are exported from the kernel interface. This can allow the fused path to resume from a mamba block boundary rather than recomputing when it's adopted for ROCm.

An additional engine argument option --kda-prefill-backend=fused is added to enable this fused path, and it's set as the default when it is supported.

Test Plan

Unit tests for the fused kernels
lm_eval with gsm8k on MI355X

Server command

VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER=1 \
VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER_MOE_SITUV2_A8W4=1 \
AITER_BF16_FP8_MOE_BOUND=0 \
VLLM_USE_BREAKABLE_CUDAGRAPH=0 \
vllm serve moonshotai/Kimi-K3 \
  --trust-remote-code \
  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.95 \
  --load-format auto \
  --mm-encoder-tp-mode data \
  --max-num-seqs 128 \
  --reasoning-parser kimi_k3 \
  --max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
  --compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode":"FULL_DECODE_ONLY","custom_ops":["+fused_rms_norm_gated"]}' \
  --tensor-parallel-size 8 \
  --no-enable-prefix-caching \
  --kda-prefill-backend auto  # "auto" = "triton" for main; "fused" for the PR branch

Benchmark

vllm bench serve --model moonshotai/Kimi-K3 --backend vllm --trust-remote-code --dataset-name random --random-input-len 8192 --random-output-len 1024 --max-concurrency "$CONC" --num-prompts $((CONC * 4)) --temperature 0 --ignore-eos --seed 1234

lm_eval

lm_eval --model local-chat-completions --model_args "model=moonshotai/Kimi-K3,base_url=http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions,num_concurrent=64,max_retries=3,tokenized_requests=False,max_gen_toks=8192,timeout=3600" --tasks gsm8k --num_fewshot 20 --apply_chat_template --fewshot_as_multiturn --seed 1234

Test Result

gsm8k on MI355X

Tasks Version Filter n-shot Metric Value Stderr
gsm8k 3 flexible-extract 20 exact_match ↑ 0.9704 ± 0.0047
strict-match 20 exact_match ↑ 0.9704 ± 0.0047

E2E benchmark

ISL/OSL Conc Config Total tokens/s Delta (%) Total reqs/s Delta (%) Output tokens/s Delta (%) mean TTFT (ms) Delta (%) mean TPOT (ms) Delta (%) mean ITL (ms) Delta (%)
8192/1024 8 main 2,505.59 — 0.2719 — 278.40 — 1,695.0 — 27.06 — 27.06 —
8192/1024 8 PR 2,526.15 +0.82 0.2741 +0.81 280.68 +0.82 1,605.5 -5.28 26.92 -0.52 26.92 -0.52
8192/1024 16 main 4,038.78 — 0.4382 — 448.75 — 2,280.0 — 33.37 — 33.37 —
8192/1024 16 PR 4,080.52 +1.03 0.4428 +1.05 453.39 +1.03 2,160.3 -5.25 33.12 -0.75 33.12 -0.75
8192/1024 32 main 6,254.38 — 0.6786 — 694.93 — 3,430.5 — 42.54 — 42.54 —
8192/1024 32 PR 6,335.72 +1.30 0.6875 +1.31 703.97 +1.30 3,254.1 -5.14 42.12 -0.99 42.12 -0.99
8192/1024 64 main 8,339.65 — 0.9049 — 926.63 — 5,730.7 — 63.09 — 63.09 —
8192/1024 64 PR 8,558.09 +2.62 0.9286 +2.62 950.90 +2.62 5,441.1 -5.05 61.60 -2.36 61.60 -2.36
8192/1024 128 main 10,245.40 — 1.1117 — 1,138.38 — 10,504.3 — 101.19 — 101.19 —
8192/1024 128 PR 10,595.67 +3.42 1.1497 +3.42 1,177.30 +3.42 9,961.2 -5.17 98.00 -3.15 98.00 -3.15

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  • New Features

    • Added an optional fused KDA prefill backend for Kimi-K3 on supported ROCm hardware.
    • Added support for checkpoint export, paged recurrent-state caches, grouped execution, and direct output buffers.
    • Added the fused KDA prefill backend option with platform-specific validation.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved prefill and decode output handling to avoid unnecessary copies.
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    • Added comprehensive ROCm coverage for fused execution, checkpoints, state caches, convolution paths, grouping, and edge cases.

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The change adds a gfx950-only HIP fused KDA chunk kernel, stable operator bindings, ROCm prefill dispatch, fused backend configuration, direct output handling, checkpoint support, paged state support, and comparison tests.

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ROCm fused KDA prefill

Layer / File(s) Summary
Kernel build and operator contracts
CMakeLists.txt, csrc/libtorch_stable/ops.h, csrc/libtorch_stable/torch_bindings.cpp
The build includes the fused HIP source for gfx950. Stable declarations and CUDA dispatch registrations add fused_kda_prologue and fused_kda_chunk.
Python fused kernel API
vllm/models/kimi_k3/amd/ops/kda_chunk.py, vllm/models/kimi_k3/amd/ops/kda_prefill.py
The ROCm API prepares workspaces, launches the two fused stages, supports chunk grouping, checkpoints, paged state, and Triton fallback execution.
Backend selection and KDA integration
vllm/engine/arg_utils.py, vllm/models/kimi_k3/amd/kda.py
The fused backend is accepted on ROCm. Kimi-K3 selects the fused path when supported and passes state, checkpoint, metadata, and direct output buffers.
Fused KDA validation coverage
tests/models/kimi_k3/test_amd_kda_chunk.py
Tests compare fused and Triton results across sequence shapes, convolution, grouped scans, checkpoints, paged state, aliasing, strides, and invalid argument combinations.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 03bf2

Fused KDA prefill adds checkpoint export, but callers that provide a destination without offsets can receive no checkpoint output silently. This correctness issue should be resolved or explicitly accepted before merge.

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  participant KimiK3 as Kimi-K3
  participant Prefill as chunk_kda_prefill
  participant Prologue as fused_kda_prologue
  participant Chunk as fused_kda_chunk
  KimiK3->>Prefill: submit prefill tensors and state options
  Prefill->>Prologue: prepare fused workspaces
  Prologue-->>Prefill: return qg, w, u, kg_t, aqk, decay
  Prefill->>Chunk: run recurrence with state and checkpoint data
  Chunk-->>Prefill: write output and final state
  Prefill-->>KimiK3: return prefill results
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if checkpoint_offsets is not None and not fused:
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Reject a checkpoint export that has no offsets.

The guard triggers only on checkpoint_offsets. A caller that passes checkpoint_state (with or without checkpoint_state_indices) and leaves checkpoint_offsets as None reaches both backends. The fused backend then forwards checkpoint_offsets=None to the kernel and stores nothing, and the Triton backend ignores the destination. The destination rows keep their prior contents, which is the same silent-drop outcome that tests/models/kimi_k3/test_amd_kda_chunk.py:590-604 rejects for the Triton path.

Tie the rejection to the export request as a whole, and require offsets whenever a destination is given.

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-    if checkpoint_offsets is not None and not fused:
+    checkpoint_requested = (
+        checkpoint_state is not None
+        or checkpoint_offsets is not None
+        or checkpoint_state_indices is not None
+    )
+    if checkpoint_requested and not fused:
         raise NotImplementedError(
             "The KDA prefill checkpoint export needs kda_prefill_backend=fused for ROCm"
         )
+    if checkpoint_requested and (
+        checkpoint_state is None or checkpoint_offsets is None
+    ):
+        raise ValueError(
+            "The KDA prefill checkpoint export needs both checkpoint_state and "
+            "checkpoint_offsets"
+        )
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if checkpoint_offsets is not None and not fused:
raise NotImplementedError(
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checkpoint_requested = (
checkpoint_state is not None
or checkpoint_offsets is not None
or checkpoint_state_indices is not None
)
if checkpoint_requested and not fused:
raise NotImplementedError(
"The KDA prefill checkpoint export needs kda_prefill_backend=fused for ROCm"
)
if checkpoint_requested and (
checkpoint_state is None or checkpoint_offsets is None
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In `@vllm/models/kimi_k3/amd/ops/kda_prefill.py` around lines 90 - 93, Update the
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